At 02:06 PM 1/21/98 +0100, Marcel Schneider wrote:
>...
>> - in the ntld doc you should mention rfc1591 and that iana and ntlds should
>> work according to this rfc (in regards to transfer of ownership, etc.)
>> - I think a set of docs need to be created by the ntld WG for any nTLD that
>> is sued. IL has just been sued in the Supreme Court by a cybersquatter. An
>> excellent resource used to be:
>>http://www.digidem.com/legal/domain.html>> which compares many policies of ntlds - but we need to have something that
>> continues to be maintained. When someone dislikes your authority in your
>> country over your ntld - they will sue you and not iana. For that we need
>> to be prepared.
>>Hank Nussbacher's comment is certainly valid. Please refer to
>the famous Haiti case:
>>http://www.mids.org/mn/712/reht.html>>I am in complete agreement with John Quarterman's remark at the
>end of above article:
>>"Perhaps regional NICs such as RIPE <URL:http://www.ripe.net/> in Europe and
>APNIC <URL:http://www.apnic.net/> in Asia Pacific, probably plus the
>eventual African and ALyC NICs, should consider going further than just
>funding IANA and assigning IP address space, and proceed
>to devolve more IANA functions to the regional level."
>>RIPE CENTR could be the body to handle all nTLD matters within
>the territory of RIPE. Distributed, decentralized authority. In
>accordance with DNS and IP/AS number assignment.
How would the RIPE CENTR be any benefit from a legal standpoint? Someone
will come forward and say "What gov't or treaty organization granted you
authority?" RIPE CENTR would say IANA and we are back to square one. If
IANA can attain some legal status that would help us. I have scanned most
english rules for domains in Europe. Only Finland has its rules according
to the gov't. All the rest are NICs and academic organizations that put
together rules (there may be others that will have gov't legalized rules in
the future - but so far only Finland has taken that step - and they even
mention IANA!)
If the RIPE CENTR is to be of any benefit it first has to have some major
legal standing and not just our consensus (meaning those on this list).
-Hank
>>>Marcel
>>
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